The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1887-07-02
MARYLAND Affairs.

mostly Germans, arrived at Baltimore.
The county tax.rate in Talbot this year is
10 cents on the 500. In Wicomico it is
| S3l cents.
The Prohibitionists of Hartford county are
organizing for the next campaign and will
nominate full county ticket
The first Maryland peaches of the season
arrived at Baltimore on Tuesday. They were
| from Wicomico and Dorchester.
The Fourth of July will be celebrated at
Easton, Cambridge, Snow Hill and other
Eastern Shore county towns.
James NJ. Woolford, captain of the Lloyd
Guards of Easton, was elected Major of the
Third Battalion on Wednesday.
The tax-rate for municipal purposes in
Cumberland is 10 cents on the 500. The
rate in Westminster is but 20 cents
Elihu E. and VIM. jackson, of Salisbury,
have recently purchased 5000 acres of tim
Der land in Covington county, Alabama.
Two sets of managers for the Frederick
county Agricultural Society, will likely, if
both continue to claim authority, result in
the dissolution of the Society.
| 1t is announced that President Garrett, of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, has exer-
cised the option aud taken and paid for the
Baltimore and Ohio stock held by the Johns
| Hopkins university.
Perry B. McCleery, the well known cashier
of the Frederick County National Bank, of
Frederick, is lying extremely ill at his resi-
dence, on North Market street, and is not
expected to recover.
The Delaware internal revenue collection
district, which included the Delaware and
Maryland peninsula, was on Thursday for
maly consolidated with the Maryland district,
| HaIl Insar.b Rnharts
The mill of the Talbot County Paper Mill
Company, near Easton, manufacturers of
straw board was burned Sunday night. The
fire was of incendiary origon and caused q
loss of $4,000. The Company will rebuild
at once.
Mrs. Mary Reside, aged ninety years.
widow of the late VIM. Reside, of Baltimore.
died on Thursday morning at the residence
of her son.in.law, DR.. Geo. II. Cairnes,
United States marshall, at Woodbury., Balti-
more county.
The Knights of Labor had a parade at
Cumberland on Saturday and pic mic in a
grove near by. The chief speech of the day
| was by Hon. William Walsh. About $50
knights and three bands were in the parade,
and about 5000 people at the pic mic.
George W. Terrell, a young Baltimorean,
committed suicide on Tuesday, by jumping
from ferryboat between Jersey City and New
| York. He was the son of Walter l.. Terrell.
He had good situation in Baltimore, but left
it because of some charges by his employer
affecting his honesty.
Charles Swift, an orphan, about II years of
age, at Sylmar, Cecil county, on the line OF
the Baltimore Central Railroad, is in Jail at
Elkton, charged with attempted train wreck
| ing. Swift said he only put the stone on the
/ ool- 90 tho knock off and had
no idea of causing damage.
Cardinal Gibbons on Tuesday attended the
commencement of st. Charles College, in
Howard county. AT the close of the exer-
cises he addressed the students, impressing
upon them morality in all the relations OF
| life as a sure precursor of conteutment in this
world as well as happiness in the future.
By the failure of Vice President E. L. Har
per, of the Fidelity National Bank, of Cincin-
natl, the Catoctin Iron Works. near Mechan
icstown, in Frederick county, in which he was
interested, has become involved, and Thomas
Gorsuch, of Frederick, has been appointed
receiver The liabilities of the property are
about $4,000.
The county commissioners of Cecil county
were in session on Thursday for the purpose
of making the annual levy for the ensuing
year. The county rate was fixed at so cents
on the 500, making, with the tax for state
purposes, total of 9SS cents on the 500.
This is the same rate as last year. The levy
in round numbers amounts to $4,000.
The members of the Methodist Church of
Hagerstown being assured ofthe cooperation
of Methodists in Harrisburg, Washington and
Baltimore in holding an assembly at Penmar
on the 10Th and 2lst of July, are making ex
tensive arrangements for the event. Fine
music and speaking by prominent men will be
features of the occasion.
The cornerstone of McKeudree NJ. L.
| Church. near Cooksville, in the fourth dis
trict of Howard county, was laid last week.
| Addresses were delivered by Revs- j. =.
Amos, presiding elder, and G. w. Hobbs.
The corner stone is of red polished granite,
and bears the inscription, ''Mckendree NJ,
| L. Church, 1844-1SS7."
James jackson, colored, is locked up in
Towsontown Jail on the charge of attempting
a felonious assault on Tuesday afternoon on
Viola jackson, aged eleven years, daughter of
Mr.. George jackson, who resides near the
intersection of Washington and Rogers aves.,
in the third district, Baltimore county, about
five miles from Baltimore city.
Benz. Moore, living near Colesville, Mont
| gomery county, while crossing the railroad
bridge over Rock creek, was struck by the
train last Friday afternoon. When the train
was stopped he was drawn from under the
tender His arm was broken, and he was
considerably bruised and cut about the body.
He was taken to hospital in Washington
The second track of the PHILADELPHIA Divis-
ion of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, it is
announced, will be completed this week, and
will be put into use at once. The new ferry
transfer steamer for Baltimore harbor. build
ing at Wilmington, will be completed next
month, when there will be quickening of
the trains between Washington, Baltimore and
Philadelphia.
Charles Schultz and b. Frank Guildener,
Judges, and John C. Cavano and John j.
Wilson, clerks of election for the ninth pre-
cinct of the tenth ward, were on Thursday
acquitted Of the charge Of conspiracy to de-
fraud at the municipal election of October
81, 1886, for which they had been on trial in
the Criminal Court, before Judge Duffy and a
jury, for seven days.
| On Friday afternoon OF last week James
Bryan, of Iowa, arrived at Cumberland on q
visit to his sister, the wife of Postmaster
Wilson. He had just reached the house and
was in the act of greeting member of the
family when he fell forward dead. He had
complained of feeling unwell, and death is
supposed to have been caused by apoplexy.
He was about 20 years old, and formerly lived
in Cumberland.
Dog RACES at Bishqn's Herring Run course
on Wednesday afternoon were something new
in the sporting line in Maryland. The dis
lance run by the hounds was 200 measured
yards, and if the searching sun did not shrink
The tape line used in the measurement, the
celebrated hound plothesline, for the second
time 10 bis career, broke the RECORD, as he
covered the distance In twelve seconds.
Wheat harvesting was in full blast through
out Frederick county this week. The pros
pective yield Is very diseouragiag. In the
opinion Of some Of the largest farmers, there
will not be more than good half of an ordi-
nary crop. Between Frederick and Emmits-
burg many fields do not appear to be worth
the expense of gathering. Similar reports
are also received from the southern section of
the county.
Commencement exercises took place at
Mount St. Mays College, near Emnits-
| burg, on Wednesday,, there being four
graduates. Quite number of distinguished
clergy and other gentlemen were present from
all parts of the country, among whom we're
Archbishop Elder and Hon. Carol! Spence,
Of baltimore, who graduated from the institu-
ton City years ago. OF THE five graduates at
that time, Mr.. 0nterbridge Horsey, Of Fred.
4 erick, ia the only other one living besides the